In revision
Newman A.J., Y. Cheng, D. Blaskey, N.M. Herman-Mercer, A.P. Craig, J. Koch, R. Toohey, E. Mutter, M.P. Carey, M.N. Gooseff, H. Swanson, P. Thomas, C. Brooks, and K.N. Musselman (2025). Developing Actionable Regional Climate Models and Data for Communities and Decision-makers Across Alaska and Northwestern Canada. Submitted to Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, In revision
Blaskey, D., I. Racine, M. Harlan, Y. Cheng, A.J. Newman, K. Lindenschmidt, M.N. Gooseff, and K.N. Musselman, 2025. Using Remote Sensing, Statistical, and Machine Learning Techniques to Assess Alaskan River Ice Phenology and Thickness. Submitted to Water Resources Research, In review
Published
20. Shaftel, R., M. Feddern, S. McAfee, E. Schoen, C. Cunningham, V. von Biela, J. Paul, Y. Cheng, A.J. Newman, M. Perdue, J. Schwenk, A. von Finster, and J. Falke, 2025. Integrating climate data and river modeling to reveal Chinook salmon habitat conditions in Sub-Arctic river basins. Ecosphere, In production
19. Abolafia-Rosenzweig R., C. He, C. Liu, T. Lin, D. Mocko, K. Rittger, W. Rudisill, Y. Cheng, M. Barlage, R. Palomaki, J. W. Wegiel, S.V. Kumar, 2025. Snow Cover Plays a Non-Dominant Role in WRF/Noah-MP Simulated Surface Air Temperature Cold Biases Over the Western U.S. JGR-Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2025JD044191
18. Cheng Y., N. Herman-Mercer, A.J. Newman, K.N. Musselman, C. Woelfle-Hazard, D. Blaskey, C. Brooks, T. Carlson, J. Koch, M. Morrison, E. Mutter, D. Sarna-Wojcicki, P. Thomas, J. Tlen, and R. Toohey (2025). Toward co‐designed Earth system models: Reflecting end‐user priorities in local applications from a modeler's perspective. AGU Advances, doi:10.1029/2025AV001921
17. Thomas P., D. Blaskey, Y. Cheng, M. Carey, H. Swanson, A. Newman, C.M. Brooks, N. Herman-Mercer, and K. Musselman, 2025. Warming Alaskan rivers affect first-year growth in critical northern food fishes. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/s41598-025-14711-8
16. Kennedy, D., K. Dagon, D.M. Lawrence, R.A. Fisher, B.M. Sanderson, N. Collier, F.M. Hoffman, C.D. Koven, E. Kluzek, S. Levis, X. Lu, K.W. Oleson, C.M. Zarakas, Y. Cheng, A.C. Foster, M.D. Fowler, L.R. Hawkins, T. Kavoo, S. Kumar, A.J. Newman, P.J. Lawrence, F. Li, D.L. Lombardozzi, Y. Luo, J.K. Shuman, A.L.S. Swann, S.C. Swenson, G. Tang, W.R. Wieder, and A.W. Wood, 2025. The Community Land Model, version 5.11, One-at-a-time Parameter Perturbation Ensemble. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:10.1029/2024MS004715
15. Blaskey, D., Y. Cheng, A.J. Newman, J.C. Koch, M.N. Gooseff, and K.N. Musselman, 2025. Alaskan hydrology in transition: Changing precipitation and evapotranspiration patterns are projected to reshape seasonal streamflow and water temperature by mid-century (2035-2064). Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-24-0121.1
14. Cheng, Y., A. Craig, K.N. Musselman, A. Bennett, M. Seefeldt, J. Hamman, and A.J. Newman, 2025. Coupled High-resolution Land-Atmosphere Modeling for Hydroclimate and Terrestrial Hydrology in Alaska and the Yukon River Basin (1990-2021). JGR-Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2024JD041185
13. Elkouk, A., Y. Pokhrel, B. Livneh, E. Payton, L. Luo, Y. Cheng, K. Dagon, S. Swenson, A. W. Wood, D. M. Lawrence, and W. Thiery, 2024. Towards Understanding Parametric Controls on Runoff Sensitivity to Climate in the Community Land Model: A Case Study Over the Colorado River Headwaters. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2024WR037718
12. Blaskey, D., M. Gooseff, Y. Cheng, A.J. Newman, J.C. Koch, and K.N. Musselman, 2024. A High‐Resolution, Daily Hindcast (1990–2021) of Alaskan River Discharge and Temperature from Coupled and Optimized Physical Models. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2023WR036217
11. Herman‐Mercer, N., A. Andre, V. Buschman, D. Blaskey, C. Brooks, Y. Cheng, ..., and K.N. Musselman, 2023: The Arctic Rivers Project: Using an Equitable Co‐Production Framework for Integrating Meaningful Community Engagement and Science to Understand Climate Impacts. Community Science, doi:10.1029/2022CSJ000024
10. Blaskey, D., J.C. Koch, M. Gooseff, A.J. Newman, Y. Cheng, J. O'Donnell, and K.N. Musselman, 2023: Increasing Alaskan river discharge during the cold season is driven by recent warming. Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acb661
9. Cheng, Y., K.N. Musselman, S. Swenson, D. Lawrence, J. Hamman, K. Dagon, D. Kennedy, and A.J. Newman, 2023: Moving land models towards more actionable science: A novel application of the Community Terrestrial Systems Model across Alaska and the Yukon River Basin. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2022WR032204
8. Bennett, A., A. Stein, Y. Cheng, B. Nijssen, and M. McGuire, 2022: A process-conditioned and spatially consistent method for reducing systematic biases in modeled streamflow. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-21-0174.1
7. Cheng, Y., B. Nijssen, G. Holtgrieve, and J. Olden, 2022: Modeling the freshwater ecological response to changes in flow and thermal regimes influenced by reservoir dynamics. Journal of Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127591
6. Fonseca, F., M. Craig, P. Jaramillo, M. Bergés, E. Severnini, A. Loew, H. Zhai, Y. Cheng, B. Nijssen, N. Voisin, and J. Yearsley, 2021: Climate-induced tradeoffs in planning and operating costs of a regional electricity system. Environmental Science and Technology, doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c01334
5. Fonseca, F., M. Craig, P. Jaramillo, M. Bergés, E. Severnini, A. Loew, H. Zhai, Y. Cheng, B. Nijssen, N. Voisin, and J. Yearsley, 2021: Effects of Climate Change on Capacity Expansion Decisions of an Electricity Generation Fleet in the Southeast U.S. Environmental Science and Technology, doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c06547
4. Loew, A., P. Jaramillo, H. Zhai, R. Ali, B. Nijssen, Y. Cheng, and K. Klima, 2020: Fossil Fuel-fired Power Plant Operations Under a Changing Climate. Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-020-02834-y
3. Cheng, Y., N. Voisin, J. Yearsley, and B. Nijssen, 2020: Reservoirs modify river thermal regime sensitivity to climate change: a case study in the southeastern United States. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2019WR025784
2. Cheng, Y., N. Voisin, J. Yearsley, and B. Nijssen, 2020: Thermal extremes in regulated river systems under climate change: an application to southeastern U.S. rivers. Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab8f5f
1. Niemeyer, R., Y. Cheng, Y. Mao, J. Yearsley, and B. Nijssen, 2018: A thermally stratified reservoir module for large‐scale distributed stream temperature models with application in the Tennessee River Basin. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2018WR022615